Barcelona (EFE).- The Hospital de Berga (Barcelona) has admitted “significant irregularities” in the hiring of a false doctor without having a degree to practice or knowledge of medicine, for which it has fired the director of the Human Resources department of the center, as well as the alleged intruder.
The health center has concluded the internal information file and has confirmed that the false doctor, who worked from December to July in the emergency room, “does not have a medical degree and has fraudulently used the collegiate number of a doctor”, explained the manager of the Berga Hospital, Antònia Baraldés.
In this sense, this person, who had already been removed preventively on Thursday, July 13 when the case was discovered, has already been “definitively” dismissed from the hospital.
The contract was not validated
The person in charge of Human Resources has also been dismissed because “important irregularities in the procedure have been detected, in the sense that the information provided for their hiring has not been adequately validated by the human resources department,” Baraldés highlighted at a press conference.
Likewise, a complaint has been filed with the Mossos d’Esquadra for a crime of professional intrusion.
Baraldés explained that the false doctor said that she did not yet have the degree because she had just graduated, but apparently she had not even studied Medicine.
But in any case, as she was new to the center, she always worked under the supervision of a “senior” doctor and in low-complexity procedures, so there were no care incidents nor have there been “no claims” from users for malpractice, she has assured.
In fact, the alarm came from a call from a private health group to warn that this false doctor had tried to work in a center but had not proven that she was registered.
Report to the police
Given this notice, which arrived on the night of Wednesday, July 12, the process began the following day: “The first thing they did was check with the Barcelona Official College of Physicians that she was not a member, and then a protocol was activated that consisted of opening a disciplinary dismissal file, removing this person from his duties and filing an immediate complaint with the Mossos d’Esquadra,” he explained.
Baraldés explained that the only strange thing his co-workers saw was that he “asked a lot”, which they attributed to the fact that his knowledge was “fair”.
“He was prudent, whenever he had to sign a report or a prescription, he would ask,” he recounted.
The false doctor also worked at the Dexeus private clinic in Barcelona, sources from this health center have informed EFE, who have specified that she no longer maintains any contractual relationship with the intruder and that she has joined the complaint filed with the Mossos.